The word "lie" is really not the applicable term to use in terms of the policy setting and military strategy in Iraq. It's too easy to weasel away from proof that "Fact A" was known and conveyed as "False Fact B" --- the teams involved failed to objectively consider all facts present and could just claim they never saw Fact A but they never "saw" it because they never sought it. Adjectives like "incompetent", "pig-headed", "arrogant" and "idealogically blinded" all do apply. In the context of sending the country to war for a decade, committing $807 billion dollars in direct costs we didn't have and refused to raise in taxes to pay for, killing 4,486 US troops, wounding over 31,928 US troops, and exposing over 2.3 million troops to repeated combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and the asso___________________________________________

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You hate Bush, find. Bush was incompetent fine

Argue to your little heart content. I really no longer car to defend or attack Bush

THe question was solely in context of did Obama lie. If so was there a precedent in what Bush did

Well incompetence is rank in the Obama administration. From fast and furious which at the very least is brutal incompetence, to not having security in place in Libya, to allocating money to bad solar companies, to putting Eric Holder in charge of anything and on and on and on

So if you want to impeach for incompetence go for it.

The question remains, where was the lie. Nixon ? He lied and covered up. Obama he certainly lies, and it very much appears there was a massive cove up ever since on every level the administration touches and even deeper to arresting the poor putz who put out the video that the administration used as a rather lame excuse.

You can try to change the topic all you want. And your screed was nothing but that.

Obama was and is a liar, and got caught red handed. Bush may have been totally incompetent. But those claiming he was a liar have zilch except conspiracy theories. There was a lot of backup of Bush's beliefs. To say otherwise is simply to be lying about Bush, just as they and many have chosen to lie about the simple and obvious truth regarding Obama

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